The Population of the UK

About Danny Dorling

Danny Dorling joined the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford in September 2013 to take up the Halford Mackinder Professorship in Geography. He was previously a professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has also worked in Newcastle Bristol Leeds and New Zealand went to university in Newcastle upon Tyne and to school in Oxford. Much of Dannys work is available open access (see www.dannydorling.org). With a group of colleagues he helped create the website www.worldmapper.org which shows who has most and least in the world. His work concerns issues of housing health employment education wealth and poverty. His recent books include co-authored texts The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the way we live and Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change. Recent sole authored books include So you think you know about Britain and Fair Play both in 2011; in 2012 The No-nonsense Guide to Equality The Visualization of Social Spatial Structure and The Population of the UK; Unequal Health The 32 Stops and Population Ten Billion in 2013; All That is Solid in 2014; and Injustice: Why social inequalities persist revised in 2015.Before a career in academia Danny was employed as a play-worker in childrens play-schemes and in pre-school education where the underlying rationale was that playing is learning for living. He tries not to forget this. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers and a patron of Roadpeace the national charity for road crash victims.